Doris Martinez Joel Shields English 101 8 October2017 The life of Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe converted from an innocent child to an infinite female Hollywood legend.
She brought herself up from a detrimental background, she was not born into it a stable home life. Struggling between marriage and her career, she then became America’s daunting female model/actress, even becoming Playboy’s Sweetheart of the month. Finally, she worked her way up to establishing her own production company. It was after her perplexed death she became an ultimate female icon. Marilyn Monroe was born to Gladys Monroe in Los Angeles, CA on the 1st of June 1926 as Norma Jeanne Mortenson.
Norma Jeanne’s father is believed to have left her mother before she was born, she never met him. On June 13, 1926, she placed Norma Jeane with Albert Wayne and Ida Bolender, a religious couple, who lived at 459 East Rhode Island Street in Hawthorne, California. She paid them $5 a week to look after her daughter. (book number and page) Norma’s childhood was spent in foster homes due to her mother’s mental illness until she turned 12 when she returned to live with her mother. Unfortunately, due to her mother’s instability, Grace McKee Goddard, her mother’s best friend took her in but, at the age of 16, Norma was told that she could no longer stay with Grace and her husband. She was forced to either go back to an orphanage or get married.
She married her neighbor named James Dougherty in 1946, who was a marine. After her marriage ended in 1946. Marilyn then went on to marry Joe DiMaggio in 1954, which ended in divorce after only 9 months since she was dealing with her own issues, (drugs, drinking, and mental issues). Finally, in 1956 she married playwriter, Arthur Miller. That marriage was ruined by her mental illnesses and continued drug use and drinking, they divorced in 1961. Marilyn was also rumored to have many relationships throughout her life.
President John. F Kennedy, and his brother Robert, singer Frank Sinatra, Actor Yul Brynner were rumored to having affairs with Marilyn in the 1960’s Marilyn also dated actor/singer Yves Montand in 1960’s. Marilyn dated screenwriter Jose Bolanos from 1959 – 1962. A biography of Marilyn Monroe entitled Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret suggest that Marilyn even had a sexual relationship with Joan Crawford. Monroe was dating mafia boss Sam Giancana, when she died. She was discovered when she took a job at the Radio Plane Munitions factory in Burbank, Ca in 1944, by photographer David Conover.
Conover was shooting pictures of female contribution for war efforts at the factory, he was stunned by Norma Jean’s beauty. She quickly became a successful model. Norma Jean wanted to be an actress, therefore, she attends drama classes. In 1946 Norma Jean was signed by Twentieth Century Fox, where she was paid 125 weekly. Norma Jean was 27 at the time she transformed herself into Marilyn Monroe.
In 1947, she played in, her first of many, small roles, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim. It was not until 1953 when Marilyn became Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Sweetheart of the month. ” From “Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words:” It was in the 1953 film Niagara, where Monroe became a full-blown, Hollywood star. In 1956 she founded Marilyn Monroe Productions. She received a Golden Globe Award for Some Like It Hot (1959).
Finally, August 5, 1962, Marilyn was found dead in her bed of a drug overdose. It is believed by some that it was suicide, while others believe it was an accident. One thing is certain the once country Norma Jean, who came from a difficult childhood, turned herself into an American icon. As Marilyn Monroe wanted to be an artist and an actress with virtue.
She did not care about the money, she just wanted to be wonderful. The reality is Marylin Monroe is unforgettable. Works Cited Izadi, E. (2017). Marilyn Monroe helped launch Hugh Hefner’s career. but they never even met.
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